The Value of Imperfectness
During World War
II the Germans produced extremely good counterfeits of the English currency,
and for a time were successful in sowing confusion. The counterfeits were so
good that it was very hard to tell any difference between the genuine currency
and the forgery. How then the difference between the counterfeits were too perfect, while the genuine currency
always revealed some flaw or other.
The "too perfect" was not "perfect," while the
"imperfect" was the more true, or "perfect". (Is there a
Sabbath for Thought, 148-149)
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